Like many of the prolonged battles waged during the last year of World War II, the fighting on Iwo Jima resulted in the ...

As the 80th anniversary of the end of Iwo Jima — the infamous World War II battle against the Japanese Army — approaches on March 26, one of the battle’s veterans is reaching his own milestone. On ...

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LOS ANGELES -- Mike Battle, an All-American defensive back and a member of USC's 1967 national championship team who later played two seasons for the New York Jets, has died. He was 78.

Mike Battle, an All-American defensive back at USC and a former member of the Jets died last week, the university announced Tuesday. Battle died in Nellysford, Virginia, on March 6 of natural causes.

Crews are battling brush fires on New York's Long Island amid dry conditions and strong wind gusts. An official estimate Sunday said the wildfire in Westhampton, Suffolk County is 80% contained ...

Firefighters are making progress battling a series of brush fires on Long Island that burned over 400 hundred acres of land and prompted evacuations east of New York City, local officials say.

Wind-driven brush fires that burned on New York’s Long Island over the weekend ... numerous calls from officials looking to help him battle the multiple brush fires that erupted.

Fire crews battled a blaze at a business park in the Highlands overnight after a car was deliberately driven into a premises before being set alight. Shortly after midnight on Sunday, a Skoda Octavia ...

The last of four blazes that began in Suffolk County on Saturday has been put out, but Long Island and the Hudson Valley still faced a high fire risk on Sunday, officials said. By Chelsia Rose ...